United States v. Sagner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an accused's Fifth Amendment rights are violated if he is required to produce his personal \pocket diaries\
• holding that the contents of personal papers remain privileged in certain circumstances
• “Although some commentators have predicted the demise of this fifth amendment right, ... we explicitly reject this prophecy”
• district court order denying evidentiary hearing on unauthorized grand jury disclosures is not immediately appealable
• defendant bears burden of showing sole or dominant purpose was to prepare for pending trial
• “absent a factual showing of irregularity beyond mere suspicion the prosecutor need not submit an affidavit affirming that the grand jury seeks the documents in aid of its investigation of other persons”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).